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RARE COLUMBIA, SC PRINTING
281
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(KLAN.)
Proceedings at the Ku
Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C. in the
United States Circuit Court, November
Term, 1871. Printed From Govern-
ment Copy.
835, [i], 12 pages. Thick 8vo,
original black morocco-backed marbled
paper-covered boards, slightly bowed; damp-
stain to the gutter of the first three blank
leaves, otherwise bright and fresh through-
out.
Columbia, S.C.: Republican Printing
Company, 1872
[1,500/2,500]
THE RARE SOUTH CAROLINA PRINTING
,
GOTTEN UP MOSTLY FOR LOCAL CONSUMP
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TION
.
”Nowhere did the Klan become more
entrenched than in a group of Piedmont, S.C.
counties where medium sized farms predominated
and the races were about equal in number. . . . An
outbreak of terror followed the 1870 elections in
which Republicans (blacks) retained a tenuous
hold on power in the region. In York county,
nearly the entire male population joined the
Klan, and committed at least eleven murders and
hundreds of whippings. By February of 1871
thousands of blacks had taken to the woods each night to avoid assault.” (Eric
Foner, Reconstruction). Troops were sent in to root out the Klan and these
hearings were held as a response. The testimony, hundreds of pages of
which appear here, is truly horrifying. The seeds of the first wave of the
mass migration, or “Exodus” as it came to be called began here. A key
Reconstruction document. The Washington printing of this is common, OCLC
only locates 2 copies of this printing.
282
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(RECONSTRUCTION VOTING RIOTS.)
South Carolina in 1876. Testi-
mony as to the Denial of the Elective Franchise in South Carolina at the
Elections of 1875 and 1876.
1102 pages. Large, thick 8vo, modern black buckram, with
titles in white on the spine; small de-accession stamp at rear; diagonal paper tear at page
116, affecting a few words.
SHOULD BE SEEN
Washington, D.C., 1877
[800/1,200]
THE EXTRAORDINARY TESTIMONY AND PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE FOLLOWING THE MAS
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SACRES OF BLACKS CITIZENS ATTEMPTING TO VOTE IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN
1876.
Includes
detailed accounts of the notorious Hamburgh Massacre, the Ellenton Assassinations and the general
“Murder, Terrorism, Intimidation and Fraud” organized by the Southern Democrats, together with the
Klan and all to cooperative white citizens. The hair-raising testimony is laid out county by county
from long lists of witnesses. The Hamburgh Massacre was largely the work of the so-called Red-Shirt
militia. In all 94 white men were indicted for murder, no one was prosecuted. As a result of this, and
other similar incidents and lack of any prosecutions, these Senate Hearings were begun shortly after-
ward. There were three volumes of testimony published. This appears to be the content of volumes 1
and 2, hastily bound by the institution that de-accessioned it, with the question/answer breaking off at
page 1102. Oddly enough, OCLC locates only twelve copies.